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Richard Hartlage
Richard Hartlage is the founding principal and CEO of Land Morphology. His award-winning, innovative designs are renowned as emotive, immersive spaces that incorporate sophisticated horticulture, artful detailing, and historical knowledge that heighten the human experience of the natural world. His passion for horticulture, cultivated over fifteen years working in public gardens and estates, is applied to each design from the conceptual phase through the development of maintenance protocol and beyond.
Richard’s diverse span of work includes the New Herb and Vegetable Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the first new garden built in twenty years at this institution, Chihuly Gardens and Glass, the Leach Botanical Garden, InSitu, Mountsier Estate, the Vegetation Management Plan for the Seattle Center, and the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden.
Richard has given over 350 lectures worldwide and has written over sixty articles on gardening and landscape design for national and international publications. He has served on advisory committees and design juries for non-profits. Richard has contributed to six books on horticulture and design, including Bold Visions for the Garden, a collection of his essays and photography, and recently co-write a comprehensive book on American garden design, The Authentic Garden. In 2002, the sweet shrub, Calycanthus x raulstonii “Hartlage Wine” was named by the J.C. Raulston Arboretum in honor of his hybridization efforts with this genus.
Practice Ideology
Land Morphology is a Seattle-based landscape architecture practice focused on creating rich, emotive places across the country. Founded by Richard Hartlage, Land Morphology is comprised of a talented interdisciplinary team of landscape architects, designers, urban planners and horticulturists, who create highly varied spaces that integrate exquisite built form, sophisticated horticulture, and the fine arts. Each space is uniquely memorable, vibrant, carefully crafted, and environmentally sustainable.
